Huckabee to share 2016 plans in Hope, Arkansas, on May 5WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Friday that he will tell supporters on May 5 in the hometown he shares with former President Bill Clinton whether or not he will seek the Republicans' presidential nomination. Huckabee, who unsuccessfully sought the GOP nomination in 2008, has been taking steps to launch a White House bid in recent months, including stepping down from his paid position at Fox News. He told his former em...

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia visits Arkansas collegeMOUNTAIN HOME (AP) — Mountain Home recently received a visit from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The Baxter Bulletin reported Scalia spoke to constitutional law students at Arkansas State University-Mountain Home on Thursday. He held a question-and-answer session later that day with the general public on the university's campus. Scalia spoke about various topics including interpretations of the Constitution and what he sees as the ...

Buffalo herd roams Hot Springs neighborhoods HOT SPRINGS — Two buffaloes are on the run in a central Arkansas city after authorities failed to round up all of an escaped herd. Hot Springs Cpl. Sonia Luzader said Friday that police know the general location of the 2,000-pound animals but that no sightings were reported overnight. Six buffaloes escaped from a farm and spent Thursday roaming neighborhoods and avoiding sheriff's deputies, officers and volunteers. One animal was hit by a car ...

Police: Jonesboro officer fatally shoots man with macheteJONESBORO (AP) — Jonesboro police say an officer shot and killed a man who authorities say attacked the officer with a machete. Patrolman First Class Heath Loggains shot Grant Finley, 31, late Tuesday after officer's were dispatched to Finley's home. Police said Finley fled into his home, then later came out, but retreated back into the home and officers tried follow when Loggains tried to push open the front door. Police say Finley then struc...

Judge urged to vacate order dismissing oil-spill lawsuitLITTLE ROCK (AP) — Plaintiffs are urging a federal judge in Little Rock to vacate his order dismissing a class-action lawsuit against Exxon Mobil, claiming the oil giant suppressed evidence in the case. The lawsuit, filed over a 2013 oil spill in a Mayflower subdivision, was dismissed last month by the judge. It had been filed on behalf of landowners whose property was physically crossed by the pipeline. The plaintiffs' attorneys contend in a ...

Ex-letter carrier pleads guilty to mail theftLITTLE ROCK (AP) — A former U.S. Postal Service employee has pleaded guilty to mail theft in Arkansas. Sheila Watts, 35, admitted on Tuesday to opening cards and letters from the Bee Branch post office, and taking gift cards and cash. Watts will be sentenced at a later date, but will receive credit for her guilty plea. Her case could be submitted to a federal grand jury for possible indictment. After the postal service received complaints abou...

Apollo 13 astronauts, flight director to speak in ArkansasFAYETTEVILLE (AP) — Two Apollo 13 astronauts and its Mission Control flight director are to speak at the University of Arkansas about the flight, its problems and the eventual safe return to Earth. Flight Capt. James Lovell, lunar module pilot Fred Haise and flight director Gene Krantz are to speak April 23 in Bud Walton Arena as part of the student Distinguished Lecture Series. The third astronaut on the flight — Jack Swigert — died in 1982. ...

Health Department warns of possible Hepatitis A exposure to customers of Morrilton SubwayLITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) is warning of a possible Hepatitis A Virus (Hep A) exposure after a Subway employee in Morrilton tested positive for the virus. The Subway is located at 1812 State Highway 9 Business, just off of Exit 108 on Interstate 40 in Morrilton. Any individual, who has eaten food from the Morrilton Subway between March 25 and April 5 and is experiencing symptomsshould contact their primary care provi...

Portis announces he's entering NBA draft FAYETTEVILLE — Bobby Portis said last month he wanted to be "the greatest Razorback of all-time" when his career at Arkansas was finished. The finale came Tuesday when the 6-foot-11 sophomore said he was declaring for the NBA after a standout season that saw him named the Southeastern Conference Player of the Year. "Unbelievable experience for me at the University of Arkansas these past two years," Portis wrote on his Twitter page. "The love I...

Angelou, the girl from Stamps, gets her own stampSTAMPS, Ark. (AP) - Not even a year after her death, a beloved writer from this small Southwest Arkansas town has been honored with her own U.S. Postal Service stamp. This stamp will be good forever, too, just as her writing is likely to endure for generation after countless generation because of its startling honesty and emotional power. The roots of this author's love for writing rest right here in Stamps. It's where she literally found her ...

Arkansas fundraiser fined by Tennessee secretary of stateLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - An Arkansas-based marketing firm has been fined $57,500 by the Tennessee secretary of state's office for failing to register in the state. A release from the secretary of state's office Monday said a year-long investigation into Gaylon Boshears found he illegally operated the Little Rock-based company Southern Sports & Events Marketing in Tennessee. The investigation report found Boshears illegally held fundraisers bet...

Hillary Clinton's long road back into presidential politicsWASHINGTON (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton spent nearly two years tiptoeing around a decision to run for president that much of the political world assumed was a done deal. Clinton didn't make a final call until the holidays. She spent her annual Christmas vacation last year in the Dominican Republic wading through 500 pages of memos and polling analysis, and discussing the material with her husband, former two-term President Bill Clinton. When ...

Arkansas AG says current court should hear marriage caseLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge says whether gay marriage is legal in the state should be decided by the current state Supreme Court, not the justices who heard oral arguments in the case last year. Rutledge said in a motion filed Monday that a retired state Supreme Court justice and a special justice appointed to the case should not participate in the proceedings since both spots on the court have been repla...

Challenge to Arkansas execution law moved to federal courtLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A challenge by several death row inmates to a new Arkansas law aimed at resuming executions after a decade-long lull is being moved to federal court at the request of the state's attorney general. Attorney General Leslie Rutledge on Friday moved to have the lawsuit pulled from Pulaski County court, saying the inmates' complaints about the new law violating the U.S. Constitution would be better suited before a federal j...

Cause of Little Rock executive's death undeterminedMORRILTON (AP) — The Conway County Sheriff's Office says the cause of death is undetermined for a Little Rock business executive whose remains were found on Petit Jean Mountain last month. Sheriff Mike Smith told reporters Friday that the state medical examiner's report also listed the manner of death of John Glasgow as undetermined. He said the case remains open. Glasgow — the chief financial officer of CDI Contractors LLC — was last seen ali...

Student arrested after gun found at Little Rock schoolLITTLE ROCK (AP) — Police in Little Rock say a 14-year-old student has been arrested after he was found to be carrying an unloaded gun on the campus of Horace Mann Middle School. A police report says another student reported the weapon Friday morning and that a security officer assigned to the school took the boy out of class. The teenager was then searched and the handgun was found in his pants pocket. No injuries are reported. The report say...

Solar panels removed from Little Rock hospital for parkingLITTLE ROCK (AP) — Some of the unused solar panels at the Little Rock Veterans Affairs hospital have been taken down to make room for a new parking deck. About 7,300 panels were installed over a year ago in the parking lot of the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital in 2013 at a cost of about $8 million. Some of the panels are being removed so a new parking deck can be built. According to Marty Risner, an energy manager with U.S. Depar...

North Little Rock coach fired by school boardNORTH LITTLE ROCK (AP) — District officials have unanimously voted to fire North Little Rock High School's football coach Brad Bolding, who is accused of recruitment and purchasing violations. School board members voted Friday to uphold their decision to terminate the coach made during a previous appeal meeting. Bolding requested the appeal after receiving a second termination notice. Superintendent Kelly Rodgers said the second notice was sen...

Hutchinson interested in merit selection for judgesLITTLE ROCK (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson called Friday for a renewed debate on whether the state's appellate judges should be appointed rather than popularly elected, a move that comes amid a high-profile split on the Supreme Court over a gay marriage case. The Republican governor stopped short of specifically endorsing a plan to no longer elect members of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, but said he thinks it's time to examine t...